Disk Logical drive Allocation

[aviwil]

I have purchased an Athlon 1GHZ with ASUS A7V m/board and an IBM 30GB disk with Win '98 SE . Should I divide the disk into 2 equal drives , or 1 small system drive and 1 large data drive , or just leave as one large drive ? I would tend to think that one large drive would be the least complicated thing . Does this involve any performance or other isssues ? Thanks .

 

[mpjesse]

Well, the only advantage to partitioning a hard drive now-a-days is if you partition it in 10 gig sections- FAT32 will make full use of 4K clusters. In other words- you'll ultimately use less space on it because FAT32 is optimized for drives or partitions around 10 gigs. Other than that- it's not any faster.

-MP Jesse

 

[Guest]

10G will create 8KB clusters.

***Hey I run Intel... but let's get real***

 

[mpjesse]

4kb, 8kb, 10kb, 100kb- it's all the same right? hehe. just kidding.

-mp jesse

 

[Crashman]

I have a small partition on mine because it used to be in an AMD and I had to have a safe place to store my files when the system crashed. But now it just sits there since getting the PIII, no more reloads, how boring.

Suicide is painless...........